and remember these are all real humans....no hi tech jazz...so every single one had to be paid.

several other preferences in those years. James Bond, Pink Panther, Magnificent Seven, Great Escape, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad World, Ben-Hur…….although many of these were not exactly the same year. I think what ruined Cleopatra for me was the constant Richard/Liz crap. It over shadowed the film.


I do remember it was possibly the most expensive film made up until that time. I suppose it made some money, not sure how much.

I was raised catholic and the nuns would always bring it up when some famous person was catholic. Liz Taylor was never mentioned. Bing Crosby sure was - a lot.

her first marriage to Nicky Hilton was in Cath Church...but her Dad Francis refused to have a Cath daughter...and she remained Protestant..so she was not excommunicated.....they provoked the Catholic Church by cheating on their spouses when in Rome shooting “Cleopatra.” “Erotic vagrancy,” the church called it...it was a big scandal and the Catholics went nuts...nobody was to see the film.

Loretta Young was Cath...my Nana bragged on that...that was why when Clark Gable knocked her up, she pretended to adopt her daughter Judy Lewis.....and good old Bing used to beat those boys....the first batch that is...

she had very sad demise..he was a dick..

and what happened to his first marriage - really strange I thought at the time - of course Bing was totally innocent in her eyes.